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An Unfinished Quest in Education by Jonathan Zimmerman Jerome Bruner championed cognitive psychology, an idea schools still struggle to adopt.

How an Outsider President Killed a Party by Gil Troy The Whigs chose power over principles when they nominated Zachary Taylor in 1848. The party never recovered.

To Hell and Back: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and American Nuclear Denial by Peter Lee Hiroshima from the perspective of the people who died and survived.

Muhammad Ali’s fights outside the ring by Peniel E. Joseph Muhammad Ali found himself in many ways adopting the political radicalism of the times.

The clash of generations by Niall Ferguson Sanders is supported mainly by the young. Is the great struggle of our time between the generations? Nope.

Is Sean Wilentz’s historical view a good hint for how Clinton would govern? by Michael Beschloss If the answer is yes, then we should all be reading his new book.

In Putin’s Russia, History Is Subversive by Andrew Foxall Putin is re-writing the past to justify authoritarianism in the present.

Why this UK military historian thinks its high time military leaders speak out in politics by Professor Hew Strachan The fear of a coup is remote. Besides, it’s the Americans who dreamed up the separation of the military from politics.

Remembering and Forgetting Repression in China by Jeffrey Wasserstrom Each year, Hong Kong gatherings honor the memory of the students, workers, and bystanders slain near Tiananmen Square. And each year, on the mainland, the anniversary is dutifully ignored.

What Enlightenment philosophers would have made of Donald Trump – and the state of American democracy by Anna Plassart Trump’s Republican critics are drawing on the Enlightenment as a point of reference.